Court okays grand jury probe in school sex assaults
Associated PressRICHMOND, Va. — An attempt by the Loudoun County School Board to shut down a grand jury investigating the school system’s handling of two sexual assaults was rejected Friday by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The board argued that a special grand jury empaneled by Attorney General Jason Miyares is politically motivated and violates the mandate in the Virginia constitution giving local school boards authority over educational affairs. The constitutional power to administer a school district does not bring with it immunity from investigation for violations of criminal law.” The court also addressed the board’s concerns that the grand jury will “overstep its bounds and proceed beyond investigating criminal violations.” “The special grand jury is not hiring and firing teachers, spending money allocated for the schools, deciding where schools should be built, and so on, i.e. nothing the grand jury is doing restricts the School Board’s core constitutional power of supervision over the schools in Loudoun County,” the court wrote.
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